Dembski: Neither my wife nor I regret going. It was an education. Our kids are resilient. But the ride home raised a question. We found ourselves avoiding talking about the event until the children fell asleep. Then, as they drifted off in the early morning, we talked in hushed tones about how easily religion can be abused, in this case to exploit our family. What do we tell our children? I'm still working on that one.

Or like how some people want to undermine the entire foundations of science education by pushing "Goddidit" in lieu of the scientific method? Yeah Bill, we're still working on that one too. :angry:

But you must know how to conjugate the verb "To abuse religion"?

I/we never abuse religion.You are abusing my religion.He/she/it/they are vile abusers of religion and heretics that deserve nothing but persecution and condemnation.

My irony meters have been off and buried in a bunker since FTK pitched up claiming we're close minded and biased....

Dembski: Neither my wife nor I regret going. It was an education. Our kids are resilient. But the ride home raised a question. We found ourselves avoiding talking about the event until the children fell asleep. Then, as they drifted off in the early morning, we talked in hushed tones about how easily religion can be abused, in this case to exploit our family. What do we tell our children? I'm still working on that one.

Or like how some people want to undermine the entire foundations of science education by pushing "Goddidit" in lieu of the scientific method? Yeah Bill, we're still working on that one too. :angry:

But you must know how to conjugate the verb "To abuse religion"?

I/we never abuse religion.You are abusing my religion.He/she/it/they are vile abusers of religion and heretics that deserve nothing but persecution and condemnation.

My irony meters have been off and buried in a bunker since FTK pitched up claiming we're close minded and biased....

Can we invite DDrr.. Dembski, Dave and Denise to somekind of festschrift for the 1000th page of this thread?

If it wasn't for them and their quick trigger finger on the banninator, their tolerance of cognitive dissonance, and atrociously bad writing, this thread would not exist, and the world would be a much less amusing place.

Can we invite DDrr.. Dembski, Dave and Denise to somekind of festschrift for the 1000th page of this thread?

If it wasn't for them and their quick trigger finger on the banninator, their tolerance of cognitive dissonance, and atrociously bad writing, this thread would not exist, and the world would be a much less amusing place.

Just putting the idea out there...

I like your idea, BUT...

If Dr. Dr. D, DaveScott and Dense-ee O'Leary were they type to post on a board like this one, they wouldn't be the type of people that they are - and then where would we be?

QED.

But it would be funny as hell!

We could give out awards and stuff..

Most Baninations For No Reason - DaveScotMost Banninations For Disagreeing with Banninator- DaveScotMost Published Photo Of A Sweater - EVAR - Dr. Dr. DMost convictions for Killing The King's English - Densye O'LearyMost Use Of Biblical Quotes in defense of a "Scien^tific Theory" - BornAgain77DodgeBall Winner - FTK - for dodging everyone's actual questions.Miss Gullibility - FTK for her acceptance of Walt Brown's half-baked theoryBest Flounce Out - FTKBest Flounce Back - FTK(Looks like we have a BIG winner right here!)

Please feel free to add your own!

Worth a thread as we approach The Big 1,000?

--------------Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

Can we invite DDrr.. Dembski, Dave and Denise to somekind of festschrift for the 1000th page of this thread?

If it wasn't for them and their quick trigger finger on the banninator, their tolerance of cognitive dissonance, and atrociously bad writing, this thread would not exist, and the world would be a much less amusing place.

Just putting the idea out there...

Aside from being the kind of wonderful guy who wishes fatal diseases on us, calls himself a psycopath, and fantasizes about beating evolutionists, Dave makes threats about hacking the board here, and so he's on the shit list. Dembski, I don't know if Dembski's banned or not. I don't think he is. If someone can confirm that he's not, maybe invite him to say a few words at the commencement for page 1000. Since lots of people will have lots to say in response, though, might be better to invite him to the inauguration of Official Uncommonly Dense Discussion Thread 2 (working title).

dvunkannon: "Can we invite DDrr.. Dembski, Dave and Denise to somekind of festschrift for the 1000th page of this thread?"

Could this be some sort of a "Dawning of a New Age" moment? ATBC-OUDDT nears its thousandth page and Mike Gene calls it a day and retires from the scene?

Now if Salvador turns up in the arms of a really big guy with tatoos named "Steve" ...

--------------...after reviewing the arguments, Iâ€™m inclined to believe that the critics of ENCODEâ€™s bold claim were mostly right, and that the proportion of our genome which is functional is probably between 10 and 20%. --Vincent Torley, uncommondescent.com 1/1/2016

Speaking of Dembski and the faith healer, there's one thing that has always bothered me about religion. I first noticed it as a child when I saw a picture of a religious procession somewhere in Europe, Italy I think.

It was a group of village people in their church clothes walking through the streets carrying a platform with the Virgin Mary on it - a 3d figure of her sitting on a chair.

In the procession were several priests, in their fanciest robes, and half of them were wearing big black Buddy Holly style glasses.

And I remember thinking then, "Wait, you're worshipping the greatest power in the universe, a Being that you claim is both all-powerful and all-knowing, a Being you're counting on to heal you while you're on earth and take you away to paradise when you die and you're praying and processing and doing every thing you can think of to make him like you and help you - and he can't even cure your nearsightedness??

Something wrong here.

--------------...after reviewing the arguments, Iâ€™m inclined to believe that the critics of ENCODEâ€™s bold claim were mostly right, and that the proportion of our genome which is functional is probably between 10 and 20%. --Vincent Torley, uncommondescent.com 1/1/2016

Speaking of Dembski and the faith healer, there's one thing that has always bothered me about religion. I first noticed it as a child when I saw a picture of a religious procession somewhere in Europe, Italy I think.

It was a group of village people in their church clothes walking through the streets carrying a platform with the Virgin Mary on it - a 3d figure of her sitting on a chair.

In the procession were several priests, in their fanciest robes, and half of them were wearing big black Buddy Holly style glasses.

And I remember thinking then, "Wait, you're worshipping the greatest power in the universe, a Being that you claim is both all-powerful and all-knowing, a Being you're counting on to heal you while you're on earth and take you away to paradise when you die and you're praying and processing and doing every thing you can think of to make him like you and help you - and he can't even cure your nearsightedness??

Something wrong here.

Yeah - I think that was right before Mary created the Miracle That Is Lasik Eye-surgery.

--------------Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

Once again, the Wheel of Life completes a turn. And once again, the argument begins anew. With the mind clear of all obstacles, all remembrances washed away, it's as if these arguments are being made for the first time.

Let's start with the false dichotomy. In BarryA's world, there are theists and materialists. But some people think the world is completely meaningless, or gibberish, or unending irony, or an illusion, or simply don't care.

No Zach, if you create one big meta-explanation, that takes less faith because you don't have to bother tying anything together after the fact. By making it completely divorced from reality, you also don't have to waste your time looking for it.

The 'a priori commitment to materialism' charge is always funny. Try living your life any other way - it would either be comedic or tragic.

Now there's a juxtaposition I never thought would enter my mind. Nazi hippies. What a worrying piece of psychologically dissonant trauma. I'm off to have a lie down in a darkened room.

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

1. As the planet gets hotter, it will evaporate more water.2. More water will transport more heat away from the planet to be radiated into space.3. Because of 1) and 2) the planet will get colder, problem solved?